CVE-2015-2923

CVSS V2 Low 3.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD through 10.1 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-2923
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-02-20T04:15:10
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-02-28T16:22:06
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 10.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 3.3
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 6.5
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html Mailing List Vendor Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2923
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2923
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:48:35 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 11:36:56 2020-02-20T04:15Z 2020-02-20T04:15:10 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 11:36:56 2020-02-28T16:22:06 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 11:36:56 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated